With voter ID a hot-button topic in state legislatures,
Project Vote is pleased today to release a new research memo that provides a
snapshot of who in America actually possesses government-issued photo ID.

Using data from the American National Election Studies 2012
(ANES) survey, senior public policy analyst Vanessa Perez, Ph.D. presents an
overview of government-issued photo identification ownership, and how rates of ID possession may vary by socio-economic characteristics.

Investigations find the California Department of Motor Vehicles not in
compliance with the National Voter Registration Act

February 5, 2015

Today, citing clear evidence that the State of California is
violating its federally-mandated responsibility to offer California drivers and
ID card holders the opportunity to register to vote, attorneys from Demos,
Project Vote, ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, and the global
law firm Morrison & Foerster sent a pre-litigation notice letter to the
California Secretary of State on behalf of the League of Women Voters of
California, ACCE
Institute, California Common Cause, the National Council of La Raza, and
several individual California citizens.

In Representational Bias in the 2012 Electorate, Project Vote’s Senior
Policy Analyst, Dr. Vanessa Perez, analyses
registration and voting rates for every presidential election in the 21st
century. The report examines participation for different demographic
groups—according to race and ethnicity, age, gender, income, education, and
other factors—to determine the ways in which the American electorate is
becoming more or less representative of the citizen population.

Analyzing data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, Representational Bias reviews
the story of who was eligible to vote, who was registered to vote, and
who did vote in the 2012 general election. The report provides detailed information on
registration rates and voting behavior based on key demographic factors,
including race/ethnicity, age, gender and marital status, income,
education, residential mobility, and disability status. The report also
provides registration and turnout rates for each state, with comparative
rankings.

Representational Bias in the 2012 Electorate provides comparative data
for the presidential elections of 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, in order to trace
how the composition of the electorate has changed in the 21st
century, and where there is still work to be done to achieve demographic parity.